Fantômette is a teen-age crime fighter, whose secret
identity is that of Françoise Dupont,
a high-school student in the Greater Paris suburb of Framboisy, located near the river Ondine.

No one knows Françoise's secret identity. Fantômette does not have any specific super-powers; however
she is a superb athlete with finely honed skills; she uses a variety of utility-belt-type accessories to fight
crime, including a blade hidden inside her gold "F" broach. She travels around on a souped-up bike. Fantômette
has the wit and spunk of Arsène Lupin, and the deviousness of her older namesake, Fantômas.

Fantômette's two friends and bumbling
companions are the tall, gangly "Ficelle"
(whose ill-timed initiatives often have catastrophic results), and the rotund "Boulotte" who loves to cook.

Fantômette is the brain-child of prolific juvenile
author Georges Chaulet, whose other creations
include Etincelle, the teenage Quatre As (Four Aces), Le
Petit Lion (The Little Lion), Le Prince
Charmant (Prince Charming), and a series of Inspector
Gadget novels.

Fantômette was created in 1961 for
publisher Hachette's juvenile imprint,
Bibliothèque Rose (Pink Library),
a sister imprint of the Bibliothèque Verte
(Green Library), which also published Langelot and Michel.
Unlike the "Green Library" which was aimed at boys, the "Pink Library" was aimed at girls,
and also published Enid Blyton, etc.

Fantômette's success has never flagged,
and the character became the subject of a live-action television series in 1993, and more recently, of a hugely
popular animated series. The original design of the characters, visually created by Bibliothèque Rose artist
Jeanne Hives, was modernized for the animated
series.